by Xianna Michaels | Apr 9, 2014 | Books
release “Release Me” is a sonnet written during an unaccustomed period when I could not seem to carve out time to write. It is unnerving for me to read it today, because about two years after I wrote it I suffered a literal, catastrophic fall and broke my jaw and my...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial
Month: March 2014 I am very eclectic and would say I have favorite poems more than favorite poets, but I am drawn to spiritual poetry above all, with love poems a close second. Here is a partial list of poems I go back to again and again (in no particular order). Abou...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial
Month: March 2014 I began writing stories as soon as I could write. I wrote my first “book” when I was in first grade and home sick with the measles. It was fully illustrated with a pink cover and was entitled, “The Big Parade”. I still have it. I began writing poems...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial
fountain No. I do all my work with a fountain pen. The flow of pen-and-ink on the paper is an integral part of my creative process. I first discovered fountain pens when I was a little girl visiting my father’s law office in downtown Brooklyn. He would sometimes take...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial
Editorial I try to spend as many hours a day at my desk and drawing board as possible; it is where I am most centered in my deepest self. I work every day except the Sabbath, and left to my own devices would spend most of my waking hours writing and drawing. But I am...
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